Holy smokes! Candy got expensive AF. (TikTok screencap)
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Prices are fine in Canada. Happy Halloween, ‘Murica.
Considering global coffee and chocolate prices, I’m surprised. Are sizes the same as last year?
Just go for flour/sugar based snacks instead of chocolate then. Few packs of Aldi version of hobnobs, job done.
I mean… Those look like normal Canadian prices.
However, contextually, that stuff in Canada is actually chocolate and many US versions have little to no cocoa, and oils instead of milk ingredients. So its a rip off because its not even chocolate.
I normally do full sized bars considering how many people we get on average. I normally buy them at Costco Business and it looks like they’re still priced the same. Prices at regular Costco are similar to what I remember of last year too.
We probably make most of our chocolate here. In the area around where I work there are at least 4 Mondelez plants. I know Mars has a few plants in or around the GTA as well.
I only got about five groups last year, maybe 15 kids total.
I noticed a couple of days ago that the Halloween candy was out at Walmart, but I didn’t check prices. If this is accurate, then, yeah, porch light off this year. It’s not even worth putting out a pumpkin. Also, I’d end up eating the leftover candy, so that’s not good either.
If homemade cookies weren’t shunned, then I’d do that, but I can’t imagine parents letting their kids eat them. The fearmongers have won.
Nothing’s spookier than fear mongering
fuck that
And it tastes worse than ever.
Mmmnnn Hershy’s Vomit bars
Ok, I’m not the only one.
I’m pretty sure American commercial chocolate companies are why I don’t really like chocolate. I can eat it and it’s not literally revolting, but I sure as fuck can’t imagine passing a rack of hershey bars and going “ooh!”
I like chocolate. I like European chocolate much more than American chocolate.
But it’s just those particular candy bars that have a vomit aftertaste to me now & they didn’t use to when I was a kid.
All that delicious palm oil
And hfcs
should be plenty of clearance Nov 1st at least
That’s my favorite day for cheap candy
Leave a note on Your porch saying “come back tomorrow”.
I always take call on Halloween so my coworkers who have kids can go out and have fun with their family… This bums me out on their behalf.
Are prices at places like Costco still decent? Or those restaurant supply type stores? Or some mythical product that isn’t candy and won’t be soul-crushing to a kid expecting candy?
“Heres a baggie with a toothbrush, a travel size toothpastea box of raisins, 50 pennies, and an apple”.
You literally just have to do 5 seconds of planning and not buy from the top manufacturer 3 weeks before Halloween. Everyone is just looking for reasons to bitch with this rage bait.
Ah the ol “blame the consumer” bit
Yes. I spent $20 last year. It’s not hard.
MAGA nuts calling inflation a skill issue is wild
Such fanciful stories. Do you write fanfic?
I mean, looking at just this picture, $20 will do you fine. So even your idea of 5 seconds of planning seems a wild exaggeration. Buuuut, we can still complain about prices going up and up and up.
Well, this year it looks like there’s one little bag on the bottom shelf that’s ~$9, the rest is $19+. Not including tax.
Shit is getting stupidly expensive. People are gonna bitch. You’re gonna complain about them. I’m gonna make a comment about that because i can’t help it. We’re all fucked. Let the person air their grievance about overpriced candy. Fuck’s sake 🫠
I’ve been a full size candy bar house for a while. Buying bulk candy bars spiked in 2021. Boxes usually average about $1.25 per bar, but you can find sales at Costco at $0.60 each if you aren’t picky on exact candies.
Non-candy options I sprinkle in that are hits are rice krispy treats, bags of microwave popcorn (u popped) and the packaged 2 pack of cookies.
laughs in danish
Why so?
Every piece of candy must also (legally) come with a Danish.
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No, you would not. $150? Try just over $50.
Random example bag - https://www.walmart.com/ip/M-M-S-Milk-Chocolate-M-M-S-Peanut-SNICKERS-TWIX-MILKY-WAY-Milk-Chocolate-Individually-Wrapped-Halloween-Candy-Trick-Treat-Variety-Pack-200-Ct-Bulk-Ba/5175566490
2.18kg for $24.96 USD. ~37.71 AUD.
We simply don’t make bags that big, because that size is pretty ridiculous. But, you can buy 20-packs of Snickers, Twix, Milky way standard price $7.50 at Coles. They’re between 300 and 320 grams so you’d need about 7 bags for the equivalent content and weight = ~52.50 AUD.
Yeah, about 40% more expensive, but these are made in Australia with cane sugar and real milk, not whatever hugh-fructose corn syrip + sawdust filling the US ones have nowadays thanks to endless Republican deregulations.
Is there Australian supermarkets or are Aussies stuck having to suck off the evil Walton family?
At this point is cheaper to be the house with full candy bars
A lot of people with, ehem, special needs, buy a shit ton of candy for Halloween so that when there are pounds of it left over they can be like, ‘Oh geeze, I guess Someone has to eat all this candy…’
TIL I’m special needs
At this point is cheaper to be the house with full candy bars
Okay, complete tangent, but…
When my kid was still Trick-or-Treating age, I was walking around town with him and as it was getting a bit late, we came upon a house with a man sitting out front with a half-full box of full-size candy bars. He gave my kid one, and my kid asked if he could have another. Before I could scold him, the man said “Sure!” and gave him another, then followed up with “You can have the whole box, if you want…”
My kid was obviously ecstatic, and after a minute of chatting with him, it came out that his wife had told him he had to stay out there til they were all gone, and he wanted to go inside and watch whatever game was on.
So that’s how my kid ended up having the best Halloween of his life.
Similarly, my first Halloween at a new neighborhood. I go all out. I aspired to be the house my buddies and I would have talked about when we were kids. Decorations, sound effects, light show, etc… I run AV for a living, so it was all pretty basic for me. But with just some basic stuff, I had it looking really nice. This was my candy tray:
I had two trick-or-treaters. Two. Turns out, there just weren’t that many kids in my new neighborhood. That second kid got the entire tray.
🫡
Kind of a nice counter-point to ‘the early bird gets the worm’.
The second most gets the cheese.
*mouse
Most wholesome diabetes origin story.
Is $0.12/piece a lot?
Considering it use to be like 0.05 cents a piece yes.
I assume you mean 5 cents. When was the last time it was that cheap? I haven’t bought a bag of candy in like 150 years.
We’re doing no candy too. These little birth control advertisements running around leave trash around on purpose and destroy property repeatedly in my neighborhood.
Their neglectful parents can buy them candy.
Hide in a bush with a well charged hose
Candy canes for my house again. They remain cheap. You just have to wait for this stuff to sell and they put out the Christmas stuff.
Do you get many trick-or-treaters in November?
They sell it starting about October 29th. I’ve done it before.
People who have afforded to buy their neighbors candy in the past have always been awesome people.
I am not one of those people.
I get about 50 kids in average every year.
So no matter the price (unless it gets any higher), I’ll spend a couple hundred on candies. I’m not wealthy but I can afford it once a year … I actually prefer spending more on this holiday than for Christmas.
Plus I loved this holiday when I was a kid. What other time or place do you have an opportunity to see a strangers house and get candy in a safe and public holiday? So I’ve made it a rule in my life that on Halloween when a kid comes to my door, they’re getting a few handfuls of candy. I also don’t care of the kids age … they could be two or twenty (as long as they’re polite and non aggressive) they’re getting candy.
I once had a group of college kids who were Indian nationality who were just out having fun with some face paint and daring each other to visit houses … I gave them a bunch of candy, told them which houses to go to and made them laugh.
A couple hundred on candies 😳 The US are crazy
Spending money on stuff is the essence of American existence. When you stop doing it, America will die.
God forbid they hand out candy once a year 🙄
Christ, you people will bitch about anything.
I’ve seen you in multiple posts now being an utter shitbag. What the fuck is your problem?
In Spain there’s a tradition to give out candy during The Wise Men parade. The town hall buys the candy, not the parents (socialism!), and they are mostly the cheapest ones because it’s just for fun.
You can give out candy without turning it into competition and forcing everyone to spend money.
Unfortunately Americans are brainwashed to spend money on everything their whole lives. You’re a horrible ‘American’ if you don’t keep the ‘economy’ going (AKA making rich people richer). And everything in America is a stupid competition. Thankfully, not all Americans participate in the brainwashing.
Who is having a competition 🤣 you people just invent things to rage about
I only know it from pop culture and online comments but in TV shows everyone wants to be the “house that gives out good candy” and people often brag about investing in better candy. So I don’t know, maybe most people don’t care but the concept of a competition is definitely out there.
You do know TV shows are idealized representations of life? It’s not real.
Yeah, remember that those tv shows are advertisements in and of themselves. No one cares about the house with the best candy aside from a few kids that are happy.
The sooner they get used to diabetes the better for them.
How nice. Better get to it then
How do you manage to exist without spending money? How are you online? Do you live at a library or something?
You can cut back heavily without cutting everything. Doing my part to kill capitalism. Currently playing my part against all branded food/drink products and fabric softener.
Am american and I have never ever heard of someone spending “hundreds” of dollars on halloween candy. 99.9% of americans are not doing that.
Come to my neighborhood.
The average resident makes double what the average household income is in the region. It’s essentially the wealthiest neighborhood in the region without gates to keep the poors out. The houses are not too far apart for kids to walk either. So most of the community brings their kids to walk around this neighborhood. I get 400-500 trick or treaters on average.
As my wife and I both grew up well below the poverty line we are very generous with the candy.
I’m not American … I’m in Canada in northern Ontario … we don’t have kids so I have a bit of extra cash, plus I grew up poor so I know what this holiday means to many kids, especially in my area where families don’t have a lot, especially these days.
Is this USD or?
That was my same thought. I feel like this is maybe disingenuous.
Other places that don’t use USD can still complain about overpriced goods. Collapse already so the rest of the world can get on with our lives.
